In the Before Times, the Ancients would gather in well-sheltered caverns, gather to themselves foods blessed by the gods, drink strange, unnaturally colored concoctions, and perform the Rite of the LAN Party.

In the era when the Internet was accessed by modem, to have any hope of playing a game with usable latency, you had to get all the players in the same place.

In reality, the city is tame in comparison with Amsterdam or Hamburg, where hookers display their wares behind shop windows.

Brothels are illegal, full-time prostitution is forbidden, and commercial sex activities largely take place out of the public view.

World Sex Guide Document: Copenhagen Read users' advice on prostitutes and swingers' clubs, which we present without endorsement.

(We prefer hanky-panky at home.) , Hank Hyena reported that descendants of sculptor Edvard Eriksen sued a Danish pornographer in 2000 for having "sullied the image, the reputation and the memory" of their illustrious ancestor by featuring The Little Mermaid on a porn video.

Denmark abolished film censorship in 1969, and in November of that year the Danish porn industry attacted worldwide attention with the Copenhagen Sex Fair.

Ever since then, Copenhagen has enjoyed a dubious reputation as Europe's capital of pornography, prostitution, and live sex shows.